Comparison with BL ms Ashmole 399

[Diane]

Without its label, the subject of these three could be hypothesised as urinoscopy and gynecology too.

Nor do I want to go all feminist, but I might point out that the sub-text to such hypotheses is that imagery of women in this manuscript must in some sense make them passive and objectified: that is the passive object of predominantly male activity and medicine. (Yes, I know there were mid-wives, but I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a woman as physician in a circle of urine bottles, or as author of a fifteenth century text on gynecology, so the point remains).  Unless we're going back to the old notion of the Vms as a version of the Trotula... ?

D'Imperio a troll.  Funniest notion I've seen in a while.  Thanks, Marco.  We need some genuine and pleasant humour in these discussions. Keeps everyone sane, I think.